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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...might not look like it right now, as lines stretch around the block for limited supplies of the new vaccine and a national emergency has been declared, but we've been lucky so far. We may not be lucky again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: H1N1 National Emergency: Time for Concern, Not Panic | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

...Gibbard’s lighthearted vocals to set the expansive, American West scene. A rambling, pleasantly repetitive tune, “Zephyr” conveys a good sense of movement, as one can almost imagine peacefully sitting on the eponymous train, humming this tune as fields and hills stretch by. The chorus—“I’m transcontinental / 3,000 miles from home / I’m on the California Zephyr / watching America roll by”—perfectly captures the spirit of travel and adventure that characterize Kerouac’s entire oeuvre...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...name of one of Rupert Murdoch’s more controversial projects, Fox News Channel, is something of a misnomer. The channel cannot be considered an objective source of information by any stretch of the imagination, and to deem it “news” is an insult to the very idea of what true journalism is. The list of misdeeds and controversies in which Fox has been embroiled are a Wikipedia page long, and the jesters whom they now seem fond of employing represent little more than proof that, in America, dishonesty and insanity do not preclude gainful...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu | Title: Truth and Fictions | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...drink beer. I didn't do that so much as really begin to read outside the stuff I'd been trained on. So I began to read about other religions and read philosophy and literature. When you get immersed in that as a young thinker, it tends to stretch you a little bit. (See pictures of Oktoberfest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhoda Janzen: From Modern to Mennonite | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

Despite being behind the Tigers in the final stretch, the Black and White posed a strong finish, making a late push and crossing the line two seconds ahead of Princeton...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Crews Find Varying Degrees of Success on Charles | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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